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What Kind of Regime Does China Have?
"In order to understand how the United States and other Western countries should deal with China in the coming years, we need to understand what kind of society we are dealing with. Such an understanding needs to be derived both from Chinese history and from its more recent behavior." (Fukuyama, 2020)
Our Democracy Will Survive This Pandemic
"To combat the coronavirus, the state has grown more powerful. What does that mean for liberty and the democratic norms that protect us?" (McTague, 2020)
What Democracy Will Fall Next?
"In March, Hungary became the first democracy to succumb to the coronavirus. With stunning speed, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban jammed through an emergency decree that gave him extraordinary powers for an indefinite period of time and put in place draconian restrictions on political freedoms" (Feldstein, 2020)
Authoritarians Are Exploiting the Coronavirus. Democracies Must Not Follow Suit.
"Democracies are far more effective at combating national crises, but that hasn’t stopped despots across the world from trying to tighten their grip." (Smith and Cheesman, 2020)
An End to Totalitarianism
"Fixating on whether Trump’s response to COVID-19 is totalitarian makes it difficult to have a nuanced discussion about the role government should play in times of crisis." (Huenke, 2020)
We Won't Know the Exact Moment When Democracy Dies
"In the early days of the Trump Presidency, there was a lot of speculation about when, if, and how we would pass the point of no return, when we would know that American democracy had been destroyed. That conversation faded after a while, drowned out by the din of Trumpian news. The coronavirus pandemic has brought it back. " (Gessen, 2020)
Autocratization by Decree: States of Emergency and Democratic Decline
"States of emergency grant chief executives the power to bypass democratic constraints in order to combat existential threats... States of emergency should be associated with a heightened risk of autocratization... This paper tests this relationship using data on sixty democracies for 1974 to 2016" (Lührman and Rooney, 2020).
Is This Tyranny? Notes from the election’s sidelines
"A funny thing happened in 2008: I lost the right to vote. Having been a non-resident of Canada for five years, I could no longer cast an absentee ballot. And not being a citizen of the United States, I could not, still cannot, vote where I live. So there it is. I am, in the eyes of the world’s elections agencies, an extravagant and wheeling stranger of here and everywhere." (Mohamed, 2020)
The Virus in the Body Politic
"In authoritarian China and democracies such as the U.S., the coronavirus pandemic has exposed the infections that societies have left in each other – and the loss of a sense of shared destiny" (Weiwei, 2020)
The Virus Comes for Democracy
“Whatever advantages autocracy might offer for shaping a response to the pandemic, it becomes truly dangerous when the strongman chooses to deny the threat or to give some alternative narrative” (Serge Schmemann, 2020).
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